The stadium was usually used to host various football tournaments in the mid 20th century. It regularly hosted the Ismail Gold Shield Football Tournament which featured teams from
India,
Iran,
Ceylon, along with others. The matches were held under
floodlights. It hosted one cricket
Test match in 1980. It hosted the
2010 National Football Challenge Cup final match between
KRL and
Pakistan Navy. Currently it is a regular venue for matches in the
Pakistan Premier League. On October 10, 2014, at least seven people died and 40 were injured as a result of a
stampede at stadium after a rally by cricketer-turned-politician
Imran Khan. Khan alleged that only two gates of the venue were opened at the end of the rally and the lights were also switched off. The local authorities denied the claim, stating that all five gates had been operational. ==List of international centuries==